With their Wisdom Teeth label, British artists Facta and K-LONE are at the vanguard of a sound that mixes New Age-inspired ambient music with loopy tech house and the staggered swing of Bristol techno. Now split between the West Country hotspot and Brighton, the duo have perfected a balance of carefully considered long-players and wicked club EPs, making Wisdom Teeth one of the most essential labels anywhere in the UK right now.

As DJs, their sound leans more towards the clubbier end of Wisdom Teeth—and don't sleep on K-LONE's lovely other labels, Sweet 'n' Tasty (for garage) and Wych (dubstep-ish)—but they've got a slightly softer, slow-and-steady approach than many of their peers from their spiritual home of Bristol. It's clubby, but it's more hypnotic and loopy than loud and banging. The duo jump through a fair amount of sounds—and you'll still get some bass wobbles—touching on tracks from Genius Of Time, Martinez Brothers, Jan Driver, Polygonia and more, bridging not only genres but local scenes and continents. There's a measured and steady touch to the way they DJ, like musicians who know the instruments like the back of their hand, and as always, it's a pure pleasure to hear them put tracks together like only they can.

@facta @k-lone93 @wisdomteeth-uk

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RA.908 Facta & K-LONE

Recording of Martyn's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Martyn at Dekmantel Festival 2023

This is Part 2 of my Mystery of the Motherbeat series of DJ mixes. I’ve wanted to record this mix for a long time as a follow-up to my 2018 mix by the same name. Both are a fusion of styles used to build a psychedelic hypnotic soundscape for deep listening and personal synchronization with the heart of Motherbeat. No big hands in the air moments to speak of here, just deep mixing and some of the most beautiful records in my collection. My Journal of the Motherbeat Substack explores the selections and intentions behind this 2 hour and 19 minute mix: https://journalofthemotherbeat.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-dj-mix. The track list is below.

1. LaTour - Blue (XX Records, 1992)
2. @geotaguchi - Deep Blue  (Coymix, 2023) 
3. Caldera - 30 Friends (Freude Am Tanzen, 2022)
4. Y.M.C. - Subway (Yoshitoshi Recordings, 1998) 
5. Brian Tanseau - Relativity (Carl Craig Urban Affair Dub, 1993)
6. @satoshi_tomiie - Un Peu (Abstract Architecture, 2023)
7. @edmondsonandon - On & On (Lissoms, 2023) 
8. Cris. P - Lemon (Psy Section, 2021)
9. @dreamcycleuk - All the Things (Idle Hands, 2021) 
10. Yaw Evans - Only Spirit (GD4YA, 2022) 
11. Todd Edwards - Winter Behavior (i Records, 1995)
12. Toka Project - One Day (Filter Flow, 1999)
13. Brian Eno - Fractal Zoom  (Mary’s Birthday Mix) (Opal Records, 1992)
14. Thurlow Joyce - Varial (NAFF, 2023)
15. Hoodwink  - Trip From The Hip (Mute, 1997)
16. The Heavyweight Kru  =  The Drea-mm (Not On Label, 1999)
17. @perkopair - Prang (Numbers, 2023)
18. Way Out West - The Gift (album version) (Deconstruction, 1997)
19. Anunaku @gu_tsvi - Celeste (WHYT, 2023)
20. Head High - Break Away (Power House, 2023)
21. Kenny Dope - Tom Beat (Dopewax, 2005)
22. S.R. - Dosemeter (Ruffset Records, 2022)
23. Knopha - Corundrum (Mood Hut, 2023)
24. Molen - Molecular Machine (Flight Mode, 2023)
25. Satoshi Tomiie - Proody-106 (Phonogramme, 2023)
26. DJ Tonka - Radical Noise (Force Inc., 1995)
27. Ruffneck Revival - My Knight VI (Not on Label, 1999)
28. Ruffneck Revival - My Knight VII (Not on Label, 1999)
29. Transformer 2  - Fruit of Love (Profile, 1992)
30. American Freedom Train - Cab Ride (Soundbird, 1975)
31. Way Out West  - Earth (Deconstruction, 1997)

Eris Drew’s Mystery of the Motherbeat Part 2

Rinse FM Podcasts

Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO & mad miran - 05 February 2024

"Dialing up the intensity for the last show. New music only. Starts fast and gets faster - no idea what to call any of it."

1. Philip Jondo & DJ Plead - Whowhuwho
2. Daddy Yankee - Machucando (Nick León Bubbling Mix)
3. Kiyadama - Worth Itasid
4. Kasai Allstars - Bird Woman Baby (Spooky-J remix)
5. Avernian - Power Stance
6. CTRLS - Subroutines
7. Marco Shuttle - Arpex
8. Rhyw - Untitled
9. LSDXOXO - Mutant Exotic (D.Dan remix)
10. Perko & Solid Blake - WTBS
11. Nikki Nair - One Four Five
12. Two Shell - xxx
13. Siu Mata & Amor Satyr - Jiggy Bow
14. Ko-Ta - Shiya
15. Junior Loves - Grain
16. Paradox - Octa4
17. Harmony - Watch This

Ben UFO - BBC R1 Residency - Show 4

The third show focused in on whatever we're calling the 160+ scene these days - expect to hear drum 'n' bass, jungle, footwork, oddball half-time madness and un-categorisable hybrid shellers from all over the world. This is the music I grew up with and I wanted to reference that whilst trying to keep it fwd>> in attitude.

1. QGB - Flanguage (Dry Ice mix)
2. Minor Science - Balconies
3. Oyubi & Fetus - Earnin' It
4. dBridge, Fixate & Kabuki - Crossroads
5. Pearson Sound - Untitled
6. Traxman - Chicago (Aquarian version)
7. Kid Lib - Slow Jump
8. LFO - LFO (Doctor Jeep NYC Warehouse mix)
9. Klute - Vista
10. M.T.S. - Assembly Line
11. Psykis - Pretend
12. GЯEG - Tipti
13. Basic Rhythm - Horse Mout'
14. Clarity & Holsten - You Alright
15. Breakage - The Original Certified Bubbler
16. Digital - Lucky 7
17. Amit - Red Flag
18. Homemade Weapons - Svalsat (Donato Dozzy remix)
19. Joy Orbison - Red Velve7

Ben UFO - BBC R1 Residency - Show 3

The second show in the series focused in on my 15+ years doing radio. If you ever tuned into the Ruffage Sessions on Sub FM, or the early years of the Hessle Audio show on Rinse FM - this one goes out to you.

1. Crazy Bald Heads - First Born (Lullaby In Dub: The Re-Stick)
2. D-Base - Base Theory
3. Jeremy Sylvester - 9-5
4. Ordinary People - Baby You Make My Heart Sing
5. DJ Perception - Know Your Name
6. Al Brown - Killing Me
7. Papa Nugs - Cha-Ching
8. DJ Abstract - Identity Crisis
9. Anz - Loos In Twos (NRG)
10. Pangaea - Won't Hurt
11. Hodge - Sub 100
12. Scratcha feat. Lady Lykes - DRMATIC
13. Champion - Amaterasu
14. DJ Pooch - Mind, Body and Soul (92 mix)
15. Pearson Sound - Alien Mode
16. Joe - Rut
17. Peverelist - Clunk Click Every Trip

"I think the hours I put into live radio, both solo and with my friends in Leeds and London, are where I developed a style that felt like my own, and where I figured out what I was trying to do with my DJing in the clubs.

In the late 2000s the UK funky scene blew my corner of dance music wide open - suddenly you were hearing multiple styles, tempos and genres in the same night; something we take as a given now obviously! People were connecting music like dubstep with its roots in UK garage and house music, and those roots suddenly appeared more visible to people like me who had drifted into the scene via drum & bass. One of the contributions of my generation of producers and DJs, in my view, has been to continue that project of opening things up stylistically. Influenced by people like @kode9 and @djoneman, I tried to develop a style that could play with different energy levels and glide between tempos and genres, rather than jumping between them abruptly - points of connection seemed more interesting and started to appear more visible than areas of difference. Some of the very early radio shows are still online, and I think you can hear me figuring things out over time. There was constant interaction between DJs, listeners and producers - I started to notice that the biggest moments in my club sets were often coming from the unexpected contrasts and moments of transition between tracks, and all my favourite producers started to build tunes that could live in the spaces between genres. Everything started moving really quickly!

That's my long winded attempt to give what I'm doing with this show some context - it's also just an hour long mix of sick tunes through the last 25 years of UK dance music, with a couple of unreleased exclusives and few Hessle Audio 12"s thrown in for good measure. I hope you enjoy it!"

Ben UFO - BBC R1 Residency - Show 2

The first show in the series focused on new and unreleased music, pure upfront stuff.

1. J. Wiltshire - The Number Counters (Konx-om-Pax remix)
2. Off The Meds - Hiccups (Roman Flügel E-Mix)
3. Manuel Tur - 126 BPM
4. Two Shell - ◎ huku (edit)
5. Scratchclart - Hard
6. INVT - Sopla
7. Lipelis x TMO - Diet 505 (Dub)
8. Unknown - Unreleased
9. Anthony Naples - Here With You
10. Pearson Sound - Freefall
11. Bakey - Jackpot
12. Pangaea - Fuzzy Logic
13. Joy Orbison - Pinky Ring
14. Pariah - Caterpillar
15. Henzo - Finola Shake
16. Chloe Robinson and DJ ADHD - Pax (Four Tet remix)
17. Instinct - Rain

Ben UFO - BBC R1 Residency - Show 1

Here's two and a half hours of ambient, chuggers and classic house, as UK visionary Actress took to the decks in Globus as our surprise guest.

@actress1
@tresorberlin

Ben UFO - BBC R1 Residency - Show 3

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